S18E263 - What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Bernard Williams and Judith Shklar

Today’s episode explores the ideas of two late-twentieth-century thinkers who argued that political philosophy needs to be concerned with more than just justice. David talks to Paul Sagar about why Bernard Williams thought we should focus on questions about legitimacy and why Judith Shklar believed we should spend more time worrying about cruelty. Is the fundamental political question about how to achieve the best or is it about how to avoid the worst? And if it’s the second, where should we start?

Out tomorrow on PPF+: a bonus episode to accompany this series in which Davi...